Donald J. Patrick Jr., a 38-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on the night of January 19, 2021, as he was leaving his job as a manager at Hooters on Bay Road in Saginaw, Michigan. A passerby heard multiple gunshots and saw an unidentified person in a white hooded sweatshirt running away toward a nearby Walmart. A police K-9 tracked the suspect’s scent for a distance before it ended; investigators say that suggests the shooter may have escaped in a waiting vehicle and that the attack was planned.

Donald was in training to become a general manager and is remembered by family as a devoted, family-oriented father to two daughters, LaDonna and Olive. The Saginaw County Sheriff’s Office describes the killing as targeted and premeditated; no arrests have been announced and a reward of $7,500 is being offered for information leading to an arrest. Anyone with information about that January night is urged to contact investigators.